In Protestant Germany, about the same period, Plieninger took a dislike to the new Gregorian calendar and published a volume of Brief Reflections, in which he insisted that the elements had given utterance to God's anger against it, calling attention to the fact that violent storms raged over almost all Germany during the very ten days which the Pope had taken out for the correction of the year, and that great floods began with the first days of the corrected year.( 214) (214) For Tyndale, see his Doctrinal Treatises, p.

194, and for Whitgift, see his Works, vol.ii, pp.

477-483; Bale, Works, pp.
244, 245; and Pilkington, Works, pp.

177, 536 (all in Parker Society Publications).

Bishop Bale cites especially Job xxxviii, Ecclesiasticus xiii, and Revelation viii, as supporting the theory.